The post-workshop call for a special issue in the ACM Transactions in Human-Computer Interaction journal focused on designing for mindful eating.
The post-workshop call for a special issue in the ACM Transactions in Human-Computer Interaction journal focused on designing for mindful eating.
Corina Sas is Professor in HCI and Digital health in the School of Computing and Communications at Lancaster University, UK. Her expertise includes mindfulness technologies, HFI with a focus on 3D food printing for wellbeing, and design tools in this space. She has also extensive experience on the role of the body in the design, and affective health technologies supporting emotional awareness and regulation for both wellbeing and mental health.
Lala Guluzade is PhD candidate in the School of Computing and Communications at Lancaster University, UK. She is a product designer with over eight years of experience whose HCI research focuses on exploring and designing interactive technologies for mindful eating. Her research interests include health, wellbeing, and designing for better user experience.
Ferran Altarriba Bertran is an Associate Professor at Escola Universitària ERAM and a researcher at the Gamification Group (Tampere, Finland). His work explores how to design tech that supports ways of living that are both joyful and caring, using situated and participatory design methods. He has explored different areas of food practice, looking into their capacity to give rise to rich lived experiences where play and playfulness can have a meaningful role.
Kristina Höök is Professor in Interaction Design at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. She is known for her work on affective interaction and designing for bodily, somatic, and sensory engagement in interaction through soma design. Soma design is a holistic design approach offering aesthetic and ethical design ideals.
Rohit Ashok Khot is Senior Lecturer in the School of Design at RMIT University, Australia. He directs the HAFP Research Lab that contributes innovative ideas and designs to the rapidly evolving realm of HFI. His work challenges established norms and spearheads a paradigm shift in the traditional approach to designing technology for food and well-being, weaving in the worlds of play and multisensory experiences within the context of food.
Naseem Ahmadpour is Associate Professor in Interaction Design at the University of Sydney. She leads the Affective Interactions lab where she conducts research on affective experiences and emotional harms of sociotechnical systems that increasingly shape the future of care and work. Her research interests also include mindfulness and tools for soma-based design, while her recent work questions platformization of care and raises ethical concerns about unregulated innovations in this space.